Daily Prayer

Tuesday, 07 May 2013

From Blaming to Forgiving

“…Our most painful suffering often comes from those who love us and those
we love. The relationships between husband and wife, parents and
children, brothers and sisters, teachers and students, pastors and parishioners
- these are where our deepest wounds occur. Even late in life, yes, even
after those who wounded us have long since died, we might still need help to
sort out what happened in these relationships. The great temptation is to keep
blaming those who were closest to us for our present, condition saying:
"You made me who I am now, and I hate who I am." The great
challenge is to acknowledge our hurts and claim our true selves as being more
than the result of what other people do to us. Only when we can claim our
God-made selves as the true source of our being will we be free to forgive
those who have wounded us…”